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First Break - Volume 20, Issue 1, 2002
Volume 20, Issue 1, 2002
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Effective e-business strategies and solutions employing a 5D approach
Authors D. Lamp, C. Tsingas and S. PitmanIn today's Internet networked environment, e-business solutions are strongly related to flexibility and the ability of their internal software tools to deliver cost effective products and services on time without sacrificing quality. David Lamp Constantine Tsingas and Steve Pitman describe how PGS Data Processing (PGS DP), has implemented an e-business strategy for both internal and external clients. Its web-based portal, KnowledgeNet, is said to allow the flexibility needed to deliver project management tools to PGS DP users and its clients in an effective and efficient way.
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Will multi-client data management be the irresistible option for E&P companies?
By M. WeissLandmark Graphics believes that oil companies in the future will reap major cost and efficiency benefits from sharing data management services. Michael Weiss of GrandBasin, a Landmark service provider, explains the background to multi-client data management. At the heart of every upstream energy company - major, super major, independent or national oil company - lays a multifaceted decision-making process. Data go in - decisions come out, risky business decisions that might easily cost millions or billions of dollars to implement. The quality of those decisions depends directly on the data quality and accessibility of those data. Data, therefore, are foundational corporate assets and every energy company is engaged in the data management business, like it or not. E&P data management is complex and highly technical. Whatís more, it is difficult to measure the direct impact of data management on the bottom line. As a result, few corporate executives have made data management a top strategic priority. Historical under-investment in data management has led to stultified infrastructures unable to cope with today's demands. Nevertheless, market pressures are bearing down on oil companies worldwide causing sufficient pain to force them to consider innovative approaches to mission-critical business functions, including E&P data management. One solution many companies - and national petroleum agencies - are turning to with increasing frequency is Web-enabled multi-client data management. This shared approach to the problem promises to lower infrastructure costs, improve access to data, shorten E&P cycle times, ensure regulatory compliance, better preserve corporate data assets and establish more consistent data management practices industry-wide.
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How Schlumberger intends to foster the oil industry information revolution
By A. McBarnetThe digital oil company is becoming a reality and Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) intends to be a major partner in the transformation process. Andrew McBarnet talked to Satish Pai, president of SIS, about the shape of things to come. It has taken a while to happen but Satish Pai, president of newly formed Schlumberger Information Solutions, believes that 2001 was the year that iBusiness (as in information) went mainstream. 'In 2000 we had the height of the dot.com mania. But once it died down, a kind of Darwinian evolution has taken place. The projects and the companies that made sense have survived. More than that, they have been embraced into the mainstream.' He cites the example of companies like Shell and BP which are now talking seriously about being the digital oil companies of the future. Having carried out hundreds of project assessments, he says that these companies have selected the few viable offerings that really promise genuine gains and cost savings, and are implementing them across their enterprises. In Pai's view, SIS has already been a beneficiary of the iTransformation process now underway in the oil and gas industry. He says the setting up of SIS last May was a response to a need felt by oil company managements for integrated information solutions. The stated objective of SIS at the time of its launch was the delivery of solutions 'to enable real-time reservoir management and business optimization across the oil and gas information spectrum.' This is in tune with SISís view of an oil and gas industry characterised by worldwide downsizing and ageing of the oilfield workforce, making efficiency and productivity improvements imperative. A recent paper published by SIS on its vision made the point that oil and gas companies 'must be able to cost-effectively discover and develop new reservoirs while improving recovery factors for existing reservoirs from the traditional average of 35% to 60% or higher.' It went on to say that the prize is huge: 'each 1% increase in oil recovery equals one year's consumption at current demand.' The solution lies in multidisciplinary teams blurring professional and corporate boundaries. 'Technology and enhanced global connectivity are helping to dismantle corporate and geographic barriers - today's teams are often distributed: instead using integrated, multidisciplinary interpretation environments.'It leads SIS to conclude that 'the next frontier is the evolution of traditional business models to embrace intercompany collaboration.'
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Coherence Cube and beyond
By S. ChopraCoherence Cube technology was released to the world geophysical community by Amoco Production Research in 195 (Bahorich & Farmer 1995). The Coherence Cube is essentially a cube of coherence coefficients generated from the input 3D seismic data volume, that portays faults and other stratigraphic anomalies clearly, on time of horizon slices.
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The effect of seasonal soil-moisture conditions on near-surface seismic reflection data quality
Authors G.S. Baker, D.W. Steeples and C. SchmeissnerBaker et al. (1997) and Jefferson et al. (1998) observed over periods of days to weeks that short-term moisture variations near the earth's surface could have a significant impact on the quality and character of shallow seismic reflection data. Typically, these variations are attributed to differences in source and receiver coupling. However, changes in attenuation and in the propagation velocity of seismic energy in the upper 3 m of the subsurface are important additional factors when collecting seismic data, and they are independent of source and receiver effects. Data were collected five times at a test site in central Kansas over a period of 1 year to help quantify these additional factors.
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 42 (2024)
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Volume 41 (2023)
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Volume 40 (2022)
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Volume 39 (2021)
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Volume 38 (2020)
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Volume 37 (2019)
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Volume 36 (2018)
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Volume 35 (2017)
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Volume 34 (2016)
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Volume 33 (2015)
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Volume 32 (2014)
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Volume 31 (2013)
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Volume 30 (2012)
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Volume 29 (2011)
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Volume 28 (2010)
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Volume 27 (2009)
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Volume 26 (2008)
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Volume 25 (2007)
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Volume 24 (2006)
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Volume 23 (2005)
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Volume 22 (2004)
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Volume 21 (2003)
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Volume 20 (2002)
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Volume 19 (2001)
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Volume 18 (2000)
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Volume 17 (1999)
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Volume 16 (1998)
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Volume 15 (1997)
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Volume 14 (1996)
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Volume 13 (1995)
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Volume 12 (1994)
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Volume 11 (1993)
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Volume 10 (1992)
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Volume 9 (1991)
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Volume 8 (1990)
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Volume 7 (1989)
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Volume 6 (1988)
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Volume 5 (1987)
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Volume 4 (1986)
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Volume 3 (1985)
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Volume 2 (1984)
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Volume 1 (1983)